[libreoffice-users] Re: LEBRE VERSION STILL

On 11/5/15 3:49 AM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote:
> Hello Ken,
>
> Le 05.11.2015 11:24, Ken Springer a écrit :
> > On 11/5/15 12:12 AM, toki wrote:
> > > On 05/11/2015 04:24, Ken Springer wrote:
> > >
> > > > While some bug may be deemed trivial by the devs or some system, that
> > > > bug may not be trivial to the user.
> > >
> > > That is why individuals and organization purchase Tier 3 support
> > > contracts. It does matter if the software is FLOSS, or non-FLOSS, the
> > > only way to ensure that issues that the user considers to be serious
> > > flaws/bugs, is by either fixing the issue themselves, or paying
> > > somebody
> > > to fix the issue.
> >
> > Or by going elsewhere, using someone else's product.  :-)
>
> Of course, especially given that LibreOffice is not a product but a
> community. A product comes with warranties and things such as support
> contract. It also comes with a price tag. That being said, nobody's
> working for free; do you? Using someone else's products will require
> them at some point to purchase something (a license, a support contract,
> etc.)

OK, folks...  We're going down the same path we did a couple years ago, 
and I'm not disagreeing with any of it, which most seem to not understand.

There is a group, or at least was, in the LO community that wants/wanted 
to push LO as a viable alternative to MS Office.  And you have a group 
with the perspective of "we fix what we want to fix".

My point is, you can't have both positions and be truly successful.  If 
you want to be a true viable alternative to MS Office, then you have to 
fix bugs important to users, not just the bugs you want to fix.  That's 
it, OK?  Which is what I said in my reply to Joel.

To paraphrase a line in a previous post of mine, I want a piece of 
software that works, not software that needs work.  :-)  I'm not a 
programmer, I don't have money to pay to have it fixed (one of the 
reasons I try to use open source/free software), I'm not anyone's beta 
tester.   <G>

Which is why I've just started trying FreeOffice from Softmaker.  Do I 
know for a fact it will do what I need?  No, that's why I'm trying it 
out.   <G>  If FreeOffice doesn't do it, there are others to try.   :-)


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